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Welcome to the best SEO Tutorial online with regular updates for over 15 years, here you will find answers to common and not so common search engine optimization (SEO) questions. It’s impossible to fit an advanced SEO tutorial on one webpage, Google has over 200 ranking factors which is enough content to warrant a search engine optimization book! Below you will find a long list of SEO articles on this website which covers some of the SEO techniques and information I’ve acquired over the past 20 years researching and testing SEO theories etc… Hire an SEO Consultant Want to take […]

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A hosted doorway page is basically a webpage that doesn’t really offer any real content to a search engine visitor, but is an OLD black hat SEO technique for creating multiple keyword rich webpages that are used as a gateway (doorway) to the real websites content: they also act as pages to add keyword rich links to the target site. A single doorway page will concentrate on a specific search phrase or niche with links to the appropriate content on the real site. Some doorway pages expect the search engine visitor to click a link to the real content and […]

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I’d love to write a true how to article for how to score a perfect 100% on Google PageSpeed Insights, but even though I’ve achieved a perfect 100% for the SEO Gold Homepage, it’s NOT easy! That being said, I can give some performance SEO tips to significantly improve speed results. This SEO tutorial is WordPress SEO focused since this site is powered by WordPress. 100% on Google PageSpeed Insights for the SEO Gold Homepage Run this websites homepage through the Google PageSpeed Insights Tool and it should have a 100% perfect score, or at least be very close to […]

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The navigation structure of a website can play a major SEO role in both spreading Pagerank/link benefit through a site and as importantly niching or theming internal links. A websites link structure isn’t just about SEO, it’s not only search engine robots who will be using it, your visitors will be using the navigation links to browse through your website. A good website navigation structure should: Make navigation easy for website visitors Make spidering the ENTIRE website easy for search engines Share SEO link benefit through a website Target extra links to the most important content Make Navigation Easy for […]

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There was a common SEO misconception, webpages in the root of a domain will be ranked higher than webpages deep within the subfolder directory structure. website.com/webpage.html would be a webpage in the root of the domain website.com/subfolder-1/webpage.html will be one subfolder deep website.com/subfolder-1/subfolder-2/webpage.html will be two subfolders deep website.com/subfolder-1/subfolder-2/subfolder-3/webpage.html will be three subfolders deep Subfolder Depth SEO Myth It used to be believed by some SEO’s if you went too deep with your directory subfolder structure (over 4 subfolders deep – website.com/subfolder-1/subfolder-2/subfolder-3/subfolder-4/webpage.html) those webpages wouldn’t even be spidered at all by search engines: not true BTW! The reason for this […]

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The original description of the Google Sandbox Effect in 2004 was a new website that had gained some good SERPs suddenly lost them all and was sent to oblivion, sent to the sandbox! Remember this description when reading a webmaster or SEO experts account of a Google sandboxed website. The Google Sandbox Effect The Google Sandbox Effect is Born! What is the Google Sandbox Effect? Google Algorithm Updates & SERPs Is the Google Sandbox Ageist? Testing the Sandbox Effect SEO Link Building Delayed Benefit Why Doesn’t Google Trust Webmasters Anymore? How To Cope With a Sandboxed Site Google Sandboxed Effect […]

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How can you know for sure a website has been penalized by Google? Quick answer: you can’t unless Google has informed you of a Google penalty via the Google Search Console. If your website has had a manual Google review and they determined your site breaks the Google webmaster guidelines, you should see why your site is penalized in Google under your Google Search Console. "Security & Manual Actions" >> "Manual Actions" Let’s take a look at what MANY webmasters fret about, the Google Sandbox Penalty. When is a Google Penalty not a Google Penalty? A lot has been written […]

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Google PageRank or PR for short seems to be misunderstood by so many webmasters and SEO specialists that in this part of the SEO tutorial I will try to explain the ins and outs of PageRank without getting too deep into the technical maths behind the PageRank algorithm. Let’s hope so anyway, not easy to explain PR without dealing with some Maths! Over the years I’ve wrote several SEO articles on PageRank including: Google PageRank and Page Rank which describes the difference between PR and Page Rank (some webmasters get confused) and PageRank Explained which covers a general overview of […]

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Been working on SEO performance tweaks, trying to get this website to be as efficient/fast as possible without removing important features. I’m really close to exceptionally good results testing with most page speed testing tools: Google PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom Tools, GTMetrix, WebPageTest, and Google Lighthouse (Chrome built in version and Chrome Extension version). As I was getting closer and closer to perfection I ran into a stubborn issue with the sites favicon.ico file being reported as an issue by the GTMetrix testing tool under “Specify a cache validator”. Specify a cache validator: The following resources are missing a cache validator. […]

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